“Ephraim is struck.Their root has dried up.They will bear no fruit.Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
Hosea 9:16 (WEB)
Context Reading
14Give them — Yahweh what will you give?Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal;for there I hated them.Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house!I will love them no more.All their princes are rebels. 16Ephraim is struck.Their root has dried up.They will bear no fruit.Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.” 17My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him;and they will be wanderers among the nations.